vim-header

Easily adds brief author info and license headers

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Examples
• Commands
• Settings
• Filetypes support

Install

Preferred installation method is Pathogen

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/alpertuna/vim-header

Or you can use your own way

Usage

This is a general usage example. You can add these lines into your .vimrc

let g:header_field_author = 'Your Name'
let g:header_field_author_email = 'your@mail'
map <F4> :AddHeader<CR>

Pressing F4 in normal mode will add a brief author information at the top of your buffer.

Examples

For example, when you open a file named start.sh and press F4 after above settings, plugin will add these lines at the top of your buffer

#!/bin/bash
# File: start.sh
# Author: Your Name <your@mail>
# Date: 13.03.2016
# Last Modified Date: 13.03.2016
# Last Modified By: Your Name <your@mail>

or for a file named index.php

<?php
/*
 * File: index.php
 * @author: Your Name <your@mail>
 * Date: 13.03.2016
 * Last Modified Date: 13.03.2016
 * Last Modified By: Your Name <your@mail>
 */

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Commands

Adding Headers

• :AddHeader Adds brief author information or updates if exists
• :AddMinHeader Adds minified version of author information

Adding Licenses

• :AddMITLicense Adds MIT License
• :AddApacheLicense Adds Apache License
• :AddGNULicense Adds GNU GP License v3
• :AddAGPLicense Adds GNU Affero GP License v3
• :AddLGPLLicense Adds GNU Lesser GP License
• :AddMPLLicense Adds Mozilla Public License
• :AddWTFPLLicense Adds WTFPL License
• :AddZlibLicense Adds zlib License

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Settings

These settings are for your $MYVIMRC (vim: .vimrc, neovim: .config/nvim/init.vim)

Settings List

Settings related to headers:

• g:header_auto_add_header
• g:header_auto_update_header
• g:header_alignment
• g:header_max_size

Settings related to headers' fields:

• g:header_field_filename
• g:header_field_project
• g:header_field_filename_path
• g:header_field_author
• g:header_field_author_email
• g:header_field_copyright
• g:header_field_timestamp
• g:header_field_modified_timestamp
• g:header_field_modified_by
• g:header_field_timestamp_format
• g:header_field_license_id
• g:header_field_last_separator

Settings related to supported filetypes:

• g:header_cfg_comment_char

g:header_auto_add_header

let g:header_auto_add_header = 1

Toggles automatic headers' addition. 0 by default. If enable this feature and there is already header in current file, this plugin will update it automaically. But if you only want to update the header, look at the option below.

g:header_auto_update_header

let g:header_auto_update_header = 1

Toggles automatic headers' update. 0 by default. Ignore this option if g:header_auto_add_header is enabled

g:header_alignment

let g:header_alignment = 0

Aligns headers' values. 1 by default.

g:header_max_size

let g:header_max_size = 20

Sets the range from which vim-header will search for required headers (ones sets in global options) to determinate if it should update existing headers or add new ones.

This options is used to prevent text replacement if your file contains text matching headers (for instance File:). See #20 for more explanations. 7 by default.

g:header_field_filename

let g:header_field_filename = 0

Toggles File: header field. 1 by default.

g:header_field_project

let g:header_field_project = 'Your Project'

Sets defined value for Project: field. Empty string disables it. '' by default.

g:header_field_filename_path

let g:header_field_filename_path = 1

Uses filename instead of full path in File: header field. 0 by default.

g:header_field_author

let g:header_field_author = 'Your Name'

Sets defined value for Author: and Last Modified By: fields. Empty string disables it. '' by default.

g:header_field_author_email

let g:header_field_author_email = 'your@mail'

Adds defined value surrounded by <, > after author name in Author: and Last Modified By: fields. g:header_field_author must be set and not be empty in order to add email to its value. Empty string disables adding email value. '' by default.

g:header_field_copyright

let g:header_field_copyright = ''

Adds custom copyright lines. '' by default.

g:header_field_timestamp

let g:header_field_timestamp = 0

Toggles Date: header field. 1 by default.

g:header_field_modified_timestamp

let g:header_field_modified_timestamp = 0

Toggles Last Modified Date: header field. 1 by default.

g:header_field_modified_by

let g:header_field_modified_by = 0

Toggles Last Modified By: header field. This header value relies on g:header_field_author value. In order to shows up g:header_field_author must be set and not be empty. 1 by default.

g:header_field_timestamp_format

let g:header_field_timestamp_format = '%d.%m.%Y'

Sets timestamp format. %d.%m.%Y by default.

g:header_field_license_id

let g:header_field_license_id = 'BSD-3-Clause'

Sets license field. '' by default.

g:header_field_last_separator

let g:header_field_last_separator = 0

Toggles ----- header field. 0 by default.

g:header_cfg_comment_char

let g:header_cfg_comment_char = ';'

Sets cfg's filetype comment character as this filetype supports multiple set of comment characters (;, //, #, ...). # by default.

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Filetypes support

Supported filetypes are:

• ada
• arduino
• asm
• c
• cfg
• clojure
• coldfusion(cfc,cfml)
• cpp
• cs
• cuda
• css
• dart
• dosini
• elixir
• erlang
• go
• groovy
• haskel
• java
• javascript
• jsx
• kotlin
• less
• lex
• lisp
• lua
• make
• matlab/octave
• ocaml
• perl
• php
• plaintex
• pug
• proto
• python
• racket
• rst
• ruby
• rust
• sass
• scala
• scheme
• sh
• svelte
• tcl
• tex
• tmux
• tsx
• vhdl
• verilog
• vim
• xdefaults
• yacc
• yaml
• vimwiki

And licenses are:

• Apache
• SHL
• EUP
• GNU GPL
• GNU AGPL
• GNU LGPL
• MIT
• MPL
• WTFPL
• zlib

If you want more filetypes or licenses, you can open issues or provide any improvements by pull requests on alpertuna/vim-header. Also you can correct my English on README file or at comments in source code.

Thanks to Contributors

Contributors List

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